This BLOG features periodic essays, poetry, life observations, anecdotes, and other musings.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

We Three Kings, The Sequel

This is a fitting end to the story "We Three Kings" that appeared previously in this BLOG. I have included a link at the end of this follow up that will take you back to the beginning of the story.

Yesterday, while on my home from a Michael's Museum meeting at The Chicago Children's Museum on Navy Pier, I took my usual route which took me up Sheridan Road past Loyola University. There I witnessed a miracle. I have learned much from the university's Nativity Scene over the last several years as explained in my previous post..

The miracle is that there was a new lesson this year. As I passed the Nativity, the baby was in Mary's arms (as he should be after Christmas Eve) and the Three Kings, who had started their journey when they saw a star in the sky several days earlier, had arrived to present their gifts to the baby Jesus. So far so good.

But this is the miracle. The Three Kings, who had traveled a block or so on the backs of three camels to get the the Nativity, not only had arrived, but for the first time I witnessed something I had not seen before. The camels were tethered outside the shed and the three kings were in the shed on their knees before the baby.

I've been watching this Nativity progress for three years now. I wonder what I will notice next year.

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This blog has been in place since 2010. Its purpose has been to provide a vehicle for Michael to showcase his writing. Recently, Gregory, his life partner of 41 years, died of complications due to Dementia/ Alzheimer's Disease. The intensity of the Journey Gregory and Michael had been on meant that most of Michael's writing was focused on and posted to his Alzheimer's blog. (See links to his other sites below.) Now that Gregory is at peace and no longer dealing with Alzheimer's, Michael's writing has been refocused to this blog. COMMENTS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME!